John ernest kennedy



No. 625,265. Patentd May l6, I899. J. E. KENNEDY.

GARMENT HANGER.

(Application filed :J'une 8, 1898) (No Model.)

NrrEn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN ERNEST KENNEDY, OF MONTREAL, CANADA.

GARMENT-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 625,265, dated May 16, 1899.

Application filed June 8, 1898. Serial No. 682,873. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN ERNEsr KENNEDY, merchant, of the city of Montreal, in the county of Hochelaga, in the Province of Quebec, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Hangerspf which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in garment-hangers; and the object of the invention is to design aform of garment-hanger which will support the shoulders of the coat in such a manner as to give a proper hang or drape to such garment and which may be also utilized to support the vest and trousers in addition underneath the coat, so that all three articles may be displayed in the best possible manner; and it consists, essentially, of a support for a coat having arch-shaped outer ends to support the shoulders at the upper end of the sleeve and a trousers and vest support having a central pendant, with hook-shaped upper end and divided spring lower end, between the bars of which the coat and vest are designed to be gripped by the downward movement of a ring on the pendant, the center of the coat-support being provided with a laterally-extending notch, into which the pendant of the vest and trousers support fits, so as to maintain the coat-support in its proper relative position, as hereinafter more particularly explained.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved garment-hanger when made of wire. Fig. 2 is a plan view of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of my garment-hanger when made of sheet metal or any other suitable material, such as aluminium, fiber, board, &c. Fig. 4 is a plan view of Fig. 3.

In the drawings like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure.

A is the coat-support, which consists of the longitudinal wires a, twisted together at the center so as to form an open loop or notch a and formed at the ends into arches a B is my vest and trousers support, which consists of an upper double hook 1), arranged to hook over a longitudinal bar 0 (shown in dotted lines) at right angles to the length of the support. The lower ends of the support B consist of arched bars I), which are designed to be brought together at their bottom edges by a ring 11 which fits into a notch 19 sary, of course, that the wire used should be spring metal.

In Fig. 3 I show my garment-hanger made of sheet metal,comprising the coat-support A, arched from end to end and with a broader arch a at each end and a central crotch or loop (L The metal can be stamped or formed up in this shape.

The trousers and vest support B is provided with a hooked pendant E the hook of which is designed to pass over a rod situated at right angles to the length of the support the same as in Fig. 1. The lower ends or gripping-bars b are made of spring metal and in two portions from about the middle of the pendant of the hook and are provided with any suitable form of ring 19 which when pushed down forces the lower edges of the support together, so as to securely grip the trousers and vest.

I am aware that various forms of coat and trousers hangers have been used before; but I am not aware of any form in which each end of the coat-support is provided with an upwardly-extending laterally-arranged areshaped form. I find in practice that such form following the natural contour of the shoulder serves to preserve a garment when displayed in the natural form which it will assume when worn, thus exhibiting clearly to a purchaser the hang or drape of the coat very completely. It will also be noticed that the center of the coat-h anger is made arched, with an open loop, and it will thus be seen that it will naturally rest upon and be in a line with the arch-shaped trousers-s11 pport and be maintained in position centrally thereon on account of the peculiar arch-shaped form of both.

Should it be desired to take the coat-hanger 01f, this may readily be done without disturbing the garments underneath, which is an important desideratum.

hat I claim as my invention is 1. In a garment-hanger, a trousers-holder having a suspending-hook and a coat-holder provided with a laterally-extending notch adapted to fit around the pendant of the suspending-hook, substantially as described.

2. In a garment-hanger, the combination with the coat-support of arch-shaped form from end to'end of the support and having an open loop or notch extending laterally,

the trousers and vest support comprising the arched clamping-bars and compressible double hooked pendant extending upwardly 1o therefrom through the open loop of the coatsupport as and for the purpose specified.

JOHN ERNEST KENNEDY. Vitnesses:

B. BOYD, A. McADAM. 

